firefox 2 and ram,200mb is normal??

Hi
i have the last version of firefox , and run in under xp pro with the last patches
and with 6 or 7 windows of firefox i noticed a consume of ram about 200mb

is normal?

i tried to disable every compontents , or skin but the consume is about 160-200 mb of ram


is there some components to optimaze firefox , i know only fasterfox


thanks
have a nice day

 

Fasterfox *might* make browsing faster but it wont lower memory usage.

Also it depend what kind of sites you load. Flash, videos, or huge thumbnail galleries can cause high memory usage.

 

This is pretty much normal with FF, at least it was when I last used it, several months ago. You should not be worrying about it if you have 1GB or more RAM, but it is just awful for a simple browser, isn't it?

 

what do you use to browse?
is there a good program light?

 

Theres some lighter browsers:

Opera
K-Meleon
Seamonkey

 

Yes but no matter how much RAM I have , I would never give any browser so much , sorry . A single application consuming so much is awful.

Firefox is secure and easy to use but heavy (heavier than other browsers) . V3 (beta4+) is supposed to be lighter and faster but I don't see such thing even with the latest beta versions.

 

I have used Opera for a long time (years). I use IE7 now.

Exactly my point

 

well the alternative is opera

 

firefox 3 will be out soon and uses alot less ram usage.
not sure thou since i dumped firefox at early version 2 moved to opera and never looked back.

 

i tried the 3 version
and uses only 60 mb
but the compontens are not compatible

 

firefox 3 uses way less ram than firefox 2 does... for that many pages open that def could be normal for firefox 2.. lol ie is usually even worse from my experience.. ff3 will be very soon.. and imo it rocks...

 

Yes both Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 rock and are lightning fast. The latest Firefox 3 Beta starts much faster than v2 . Its a pitty that you need so much addons to make Firefox enjoyable. With every addon Firefox gets slower. Other browsers like Maxthon or Opera have many of them already built in so that their speed stays the same as in the first day.

 

opera 9.5 is still beta

how much ram do opera & maxthon need ?
how much at max do they consume about ram?

 

It depends how many tabs are open. Many Tabs - high RAM. How else can I answer that?

 

As I rarely have more than 3-4 tabs opened, most of the time 1-2 and 7-8 max, I can only state my experience witn Opera. 9.26 was the last one I used (I recently switched to IE7) and iirc it never exceeded 40 megs or so. I have not used skins, plugins, gadgets/widgets and such, just the plain Opera.
FWIW IE7 uses 37 now (2 tabs), on Vista though.

 

Ok just for fun i opened 72 Tabs (with different Webpages each) in Opera 9.5 and it consumes 186mb RAM. Opera is still fully functional and has not slowed down a bit although 72 Tabs are open. (javascript disabled)

 

i have to drop down firefox
right now --> 380 mb

 

That doesnt sound normal.

I would look at this: Reducing memory usage - Firefox

Also I would try a new clean profile.

 

FF2 has known memory leaks. After a few hours, irregardless of pages viewed (unless extremely high) I'll have over 150MB Ram in use.

The longer you go, say days, it can climb to 500mb. I've found that if you are light in the RAM department, restart Firefox at least once every four hours.

FF3 beta 4 I think is currently out, and I believe most of the memory leaks are finally plugged so try it out.

 

to me firefox in the setting under cache there is only 50mb

 

but i did notice that with nod32 if i open the download window , firefox freezes for some seconds

is normal?

 

Wonder why it's so much less in Linux This is version 2.0.0.14 while running a Youtube video! Normally I see 30-40 MB. I don't know why it shows Status "Sleeping" when it is clearly running??

 

I was using Firefox 2 with 12 tabs active all the time. The memory would creep up to 200mb if I didn't restart the browser once a day. I just changed to FF3beta 4 days ago and, using the same tabs and add-ons, the memory hasn't gone above 85mb.

 

but it's just fast like before?

 

Currently running with no other tabs open and at 136Mb usage. It will usually hop up to around 160 or so with no other tabs open once left open for awhile. My main problem is for the last few patches this browser has begun constantly stalling for seconds at a time, no matter how many tabs you have open. I've reset the profiles, I've even uninstalled, cleared out every leftover and started with a fresh copy, and it still does it.

The only addons I use are Noscript, AdBlock Plus, CustomizeGoogle and WOT, and even without them this browser does that crap. If I could have anything SIMILAR even to Adblock and Noscript (without having to totally disable JS, which sometimes you want one script to run but not all of them, Noscript lets me pick and choose), I would run to Opera so fast there'd be flames coming out of me. I always did like Opera when I last tried it.